_chian: September 2006

rArrr.... block leave's ending...

sian la after a week of civilian life its back to the freaking monotonous ARMY LIFE once more..... ugh. in the past every book in feels like shit when i had a great weekend.. wad abt this book in, when i had soooo much more fun for an enntire week?? it'll be hell man..

it. will. be. hell.

wed went to dear's house.. had good lunch with her at home! haha.. its like becoming v natural for me to go up to her place.. like my 3rd home.. cos the %$!%!#$%!#%^ army is now my 1st home, while my own house is my 2nd home.. anw yea, its nice jus to spend time w her at her house not doing much.. cuddling watching tv and papers etc. haha =) met some class pple for dinner at marina sq's kenny rogers.. not v nice la.. den we saw hady!! haha.. the SINGAPROE IDOL in case yu non-tv freaks out there duno.. i spotted him 1st.. den as usual the bui paiseh phyllis shouted hi.. he looked un-easy to be spotted.. haha.. den after tt phy and i went to take pics with him.. but stupid phy's hand was shaky la.. ugh.

den at night went mambo w guanhow lide nel jialing.. lyanna supposed to go but yea due to some circumstances she headed back.. mambo musik was lOUSy.. it wld have been a shitty night if not for the final hour plus of phuture.. haha heard the bouncer went for smoking break so alot of pple managed to sneak in.. heh. though its freakin packed, its alright after we settled on a location.. its the moving in and out parts which were irritating..

thurs had safsa trng at kallang gym.. one word to summarise. muscle ache. ok 2 words alright?

fri had safsa trng at kallang gym again.. 3 words. more muscle ache.

and for the 1st time i annouce.... i played DOTA. HAHA. for pple who knows me personally yu shld know im freakin againsht dota.. but ohwells.. no harm trying.. haha.. but i promised dear i'll not get addicted. im pretty sure i can keep that... but my friends say i not bad for a noob leh.. got like 8 kills? haha..

today had 10-4 trng at kallang.. did rowing.. learnt new stroke and new start.. sigh din feel really good cos everywhere was really aching.. i guess my body's still not conditioned to gyming yet.. cant rush la huh these kinda thing.. been like a year since i last gymed regularly.. hopefully next week will recover fully.. cos its hard to gauge any improvements when the body is constantly aching.. den went to grandma's house lor.. ashton's really cute.. haha.. cant wait for him to start saying more things..

tmr meeting dear for buffet lunch at mandrain hotel!! woots. hahaa.. but b4 tt i plan to go for a run in d morning and finally cut some hair.... i like my hair now leh.. sigh! anw RARRRRRRRR tmr shall mark the end of block leave and FREEDOM... shucks. im gonna miss this week alot... =(

long breakkk..

finally a breather from the #%!!(&%# SAF... haha.. a week's block leave is here! time to do own things, spend own time, more time w family and dear, meet-up with old frens blabla.. so yu wana piece of me? contact me pls.. hahaa... today's supposed to have safsa trng but im down with a fever and not feeling really well.. so i guess i'll have to give it a miss.. hope will recover fast and go for thurs trng..

last weekend was pretty meaningful.. took part in my first competition ever since last year's canoeing nationals.. this time is SAVA sprints held at bedok reservoir.. for those who duno, its a dragonboat race.. haha.. represented SAFSA... its been quite a dream really.. even b4 enlisting, i was telling myself i'd join db in army.. haha.. and its not even 2months since i joined and i got to compete... so i felt really lucky.. anyway overall it was a good experience la.. 200m races we did pretty well.. improving every time and not repeating mistakes we made previsouly.. i think the de-brief sessions after each race were really useful.... hmm eventually we were the best performing singapore team la.. getting 4th in grand finals... foreign teams like phillipines and indonesia were really good.. haha they're not human la..

as for 500m we were knocked out in the heats.. personally i din expect to do really well.. i think neither does the team as a whole.. cos we've never did a single 500m race set b4... we've always concentrated on our 200m race.. so we were prepared to be behind at the starts.. but i was really surprised how close we were at the finish.. nus ntu safsa came in within 1 second of each other.. yea.. so although we were out, we did not feel THAT bad.... but after tat we immediately started our training.. went over to temasek poly to do 200 chin-ups and duno how many push-ups.. yea.. my arms are still aching now la wth..

coach told us one thing that struck me really hard..
it goes "do not be afraid of your weaknesses. overcome it, and it will become your strength..."

i heard it and i was like whOooAaa.. =)

anw sunday nite went to send jiayan off at airport.. haha i tot it was a weird idea initially.. and tt i would feel outta place.. but dinner at crystal jade was pretty alright la.. but i felt a little odd when jy saw me and asked "eh? wad yu doing here.." haha.... den some canoe girl said "to send yu off la..." haha... i totally din noe how to reply.. ohwells.. but im glad for her cos she had soo many pple sending her off.. sec and jc classmates.. canoe gers.. family.. yea.. i dun tink i can understand how most of them felt since im not vv close to her.. but some of the mwere really crying their hearts out as time for jy to enter the departure gates drew nearer n nearer.. and i could see jy trying real hard to hold back her tears n put a brave front.. i always felt overseas studies is gg to be a big decision.. alot can change within that span of years.. yupp so all the best to her and the rest who're gg overseas too..

caught miami vice with dear yesterday.. not a really good movie man.. i din like the plot.. not thick enough.. den had thai express dinner.. oh yes b4 that went sch to play ball w nip guanhow chinhow.. rather silly right just 4 pple.. haha.. looked for miss lim too... yawns.. im gettin tired.. shall go slp somemore first..

exercise "giant". gun 4 finally showed our worth. climbed from d bottom to the tops. relieved and unexpected. had ice-cold coke in outfield. fresh rations for all meals. sat on tunnel travelled on the highways. getting weird/funny/amazed/curious stares from car-passers. best outfield experience.

friday. short meet-up w dear at jp.

saturday. fun trng at kallang. attach-out starts real soon. nice dinner at siam kitchen @ bugis. dear went for og chalet. i kbox-ed with tag n sam. fun and noisy and crazy. oo-hee-hee.

sunday. lunch w CHS senior councillors. intellectual topics. nice talking to them again.

short one..

hmm no time and rather lazy to do up the 2nd part of the pictures.. friday charlie was made to do shit work la and booked out later den usual.. around 7pm.. we were told we could bookout around 4pm the day before.. sigh. worse part was saturday we had to book in for some stupid reason which i dun wish to elaborate. its too stupid a reason.. yea so woke at 5sth and dad fetched me back to camp.. did guard drills la.. den booked out around 10plus.. went home, den rushed down to kallang for trng w leonard.. can tell coach's quite disappointed with us la.. our starts are really not that good. ohwells..

den at night watched NUS dance blast's concert.. its good on the whole. but the "red light district" item was really.... stomach-churning.. they really go do the sex moves out la.. hm there were a few times i seriosuly felt vomit-ish... its jus dance wad.. why make them look like complete sluts prancing around in super suggestive and super little clothings? hmmm. yea.. there're other tots too but nvm shan't write them here.. other 11 items were rather alright.. some v electrifying.. esp the 2-people item.. they can really capture the audience though its jus 2 pple dancing compared to a larger grp of dancers..

hmm den today went cuz's 2nd child's man3 yue4.. had mini buffet lor.. den uncle brought us to the philips sale.. 2 days a year only.. parents bot an iron while i bot a pair of portable speakers for 40.. initially 59.. yea pretty sleek and cool. den im back home sleeping... next week's gona be so tough.. gona action-front like mad.. chiong like mad..

everybody, pls pray for rain.

down memory lane...

fri had early bookout.. around 1.30pm.. went home, change, den rushed to meet dear.. at night had billy bombers w parents at JP.. i had the chix n' mix set!!! its super alot and super ex. haha.. recently i've been bringing my parents to places they'd never had gone to if i din bring them there.. last week took them to rice table. whoosh. yummyy. think it runs in the jeans... genes i mean. yea cos when i was young dad likes to drive us to all the good food places.. haha.. den now its my turn to intro them to "young people's food".. haha..

den yest had safsa trng again.. 10am to 4pm!!! omg. haha last part did 30 sets of 30sec starting bursts with only 30sec rest.... THIRTY FREAKIN SETSSSSS... haha. super shagged man. so roger.. its also not as easy lorr.. i tell yu more shagged than canoe at times. and yea i really hate it when pple keep saying "wa shiok la.. safsa.. can slack from camp.." i mean yea we do get time away from the camp.. but we're not having a rolly good time either.. and we've to burn many hours during the weekends.. are they able to commit even if given the chance to join? i dun tink so lorr.. trng's really tough too and these pple jus cant understand la.. WHATEVER. haha.. den met dear in the evening to have dinner at marina! looked around awhile n finally decided to eat at this dimsum restaurant. spent nearly 60bucks! haha.. but its nice la. 1st time see dimsum rest got conveyer belt =) den we still went coffee club to have dessert!! wad greedy pigs.

spent entire sunday at home this week.. really nth much to do.. started look at all my pics. i did a check and realise i've around 5000++ pictures in total on my comp.. haha incredible. alot of memories overwhelmed me as i look thru them.. tts y i decided to collage certain events' pictures.. moments which were more significant.. moments which were touching n unforgetable.. and the people who made them all happen.. but below is only part 1.. up till end of 2005... haha. next week will be part 2!

then i start to feel all emo.. haha. sigh JC life's really fun.. i tink the brain is a really wonderful and mysterious thing. its like able to store soooo soo memories.. all these memories yu mon't think of them from day to day.. like it is very much buried somewhere in the brain.. maybe even "forgotten"... but once sth evokes it (such as the eyes which looks at the pictures) the floodgates jus open and all the images of the past comes rushing out to all paarts of your body.. which results in some sort of a tingling sensation.

the past is a whole lot diff from my life now la.. which will go on for another 2years.. but tts how things r now.. nth can change it.. well at least d girls no need to go thru this erm.. change of phase? its like right after JC uni life comes.. though bound to differ.. but it'll be somewhat similiar to JC. so not much adjustments needed.. ok im blabbering now.. forget it. haha.

look carefully...
yu might just spot urself somewhere..
and see if yu can feel that tingalingaling sensation.
hahah =)